HEDIS and Star tip sheets updated for 2021

We’ve updated our HEDIS^® tip sheets** for 2021 and posted them on the Clinical Quality Corner page of web‑DENIS, along with a series of Star Measure Tips. The tip sheets were developed to assist health care providers and their staff in their efforts to improve overall health care quality and prevent or control diseases and chronic conditions.

The new 2021 tip sheets that have been posted are up to date as of this publication. As updated versions are produced, we’ll post new ones and announce them in The Record.  For example, after the National Committee for Quality Assurance publishes final updates to the 2021 HEDIS specifications, we may need to update the tip sheets again.

The Star Measure Tips highlight select measures in the Medicare Star Ratings program. Most of the measures featured in the Star Measure Tips are also HEDIS measures. HEDIS is one of the most widely used performance improvement tools in the U.S.

Accessing the tip sheets

These HEDIS Measure Tip Sheets and the Star Measure Tips are housed on the Clinical Quality Corner page of web‑DENIS. You can get there by following these steps:

1. From the homepage of web‑DENIS, click on BCBSM Provider Publications and Resources in the left column. (You can also access them from the BCN Provider Publications and Resources section of web‑DENIS.)
2. Click on Newsletters & Resources.
3. Click on Clinical Quality Corner on the left-hand side of the page under Other Resources.

**HEDIS^®, which stands for Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, or NCQA.